HOPNA HANSDA Vs. STATE OF BIHAR (NOW JHARKHAND)

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Heard learned counsel for the appellant, Mrs. Vandana Sinha assisted by Senior Counsel Mr. P.K. Verma and learned Additional Public Prosecutor, Mr. Gouri Shankar Prasad for the State.

(2.) The appellant Hopna Hansda is the sole appellant convicted under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life by the judgment of conviction dated 07.08.1996 and order of sentence dated 08.08.1996, passed in Sessions Case No. 52 of 1995 by learned Sessions Judge, Godda.

(3.) The case of the prosecution has unfolded on the basis of the fardbeyan of Chono Murmu (P.W.-10) informant recorded at village Daharlangi in the house of informant at 6:00 hours on 12.12.1994 by sub-inspector Birendra Prasad, officer-in-charge of Boarijore P.S. Informant inter alia alleged as follows: